# Outlook Express 6 problems

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/outlook-express-6-problems/490671>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [March 25, 2009, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/outlook-express-6-problems/490671 "2009-03-25T00:15:20Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2009, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/outlook-express-6-problems/490671/1 "2009-03-25T00:15:20Z")

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It’s one of those weeks. Broke my GPS on the way to a funeral only to find out I have another funeral to go to. Got home and my email stopped sending. It receives OK and I can send remotely through yahoo. Outlook Express works fine on my desktop. It just won’t send with my laptop. Nothing happens, it just stares at me. No error messages. I checked all the settings and none of them have changed. I tried downloading OE6 and it said I have a later version of something and it couldn’t load.

What are my options so that I don’t lose the emails I have now?

Any help would be appreciated

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**Author:** ![Daylate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9dc877/32.png) [@Daylate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daylate)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2009, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/outlook-express-6-problems/490671/2 "2009-03-25T00:49:42Z")

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If you have Comcast, just call their hotline and tell them the problem. Should take them about 5 minutes to set things to right.

I usually have to do this about twice a year. Unfortunately I don’t write down the steps required to fix things as it’s so easy to call their hotline. Honest!